JOSEPH CORNWELL
After studying music at York University and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, JOSEPH CORNWELL, tenor, began his career with The Consort of Musicke and the Taverner Consort. Singing under conductors such as William Christie, Harry Christophers, Eric Ericson, Sir .John Eliot Gardiner, Robert King, Hervt Niquet and Andrew Parrott, his international engagements have included C.P.E.Bach Die Israeliten in der WOste with the Israel Camerata, the Christmas Oratorio with the Tatnpere Philharmonic, Evangelist St John Passion in Austria, Germany and The Netherlands, St Matthew Passion in Italy, Spain and Sweden, Bach Passions with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Finzi Dies Natalis in Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch, New Zealand, Ads & Custom and Messiah at the Bruges and Stuttgart Festivals, Alexander’s Feast at the Namur Festival, Joshua in Paris, Messiah with I Fiarnminghi, Solonxm at the Göttingen Festival, Messiah and Kverno St Matthew Passion in Oslo Cathedral, Davide penitente in Gran Canaria, Purcell Odes with Les Arts Florissants and Texeira Te Deum with The Sixteen.
Operatic roles have included Achille Iphigenie en Aulide for Opera Factory, Lucretio Arlodautte for St Gallen Opera, Monteverdi Orfeo for the Boston Early Music Festival, in Rio de Janiero and for Oslo Summer Opera, Glove Il ritorno d’Ulisse and 1(King Arthur in Lisbon and Agenare B it ~store for Radio Television Luxembourg.
UK concert engagements have included the St John Passion and Messiah with Polyphony, the St Matthew Passion with the Northern Sinfonia, Bruckner Te Deum at the Royal Festival Hall, Finzi Dies Natalis with the Britten Sinfonia, Honegger King David at the Brighton Festival and the Mozart Requiem with the London Mozart Players.
Joseph Cornwell’s recordings include Evangelist in St Matthew Passion with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Boyce Peleus & Thetis with Opera Restor’d, Campra Requiem with Le Concert Spirituel, Handel Carmelite Vespers, Messiah and the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 with the Taverner Consort, Acis & Galatea, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 and Mozart Mass in C Minor with Les Arts Florissants, Mozart Requiem with the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with .los van llnimerseel, Awake Sweet Love (17th Century Lute Songs) and programmes with The Consort of Musicke, the New London Consort and Pro Cantione Antiqua. He also sang in the J.S.Bach Ascension Oratorio for Channel 4 Television with Peter Seymour and the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists. Most recently released is Fairest Isle with the Parley of Instruments.
He recently sang Pll~ade Orate for the English Bach Festival, Eumete Il ritorno d’Ulisse at the Aix-en-Provencc Festival and the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 at the Edinburgh Festival. His future engagements include Polimane II Tito (Cesti) in Strasbourg and Mulhouse, a tour of Ulisse with Les Arts Florissants to France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA, the St Matthew Passion in Oslo Cathedral, Judas Maccabeus in Nimes, Bach B Minor Mass in Dunblane and Salisbury Cathedrals, Cantata 191 at the Royal Albert Hall, Christmas Oratorio at the Bach Bath Festival, St John Passion in Chester Cathedral, Magnificat in King’s College, Cambridge, and St Matthew Passion in Beverley and York Minsters, Elijah in Southwell Minster (with Willard White), Mozart Mass in C Minor at the Caird Hall, Dundee, and Requiem in Exeter Cathedral as well as appearances with choral societies throughout the UK.
